title: Hospital churn and casemix instability: implications for planning and educating the nursing workforce.
abstract: Health workforce planning is a priority for Australian governments at both state and federal levels. Nursing shortages are a significant problem and addressing these shortages is likely to be a component of any workforce plan. This paper looks at the case of hospital nursing and argues that casemix, workforce and management instability inhibit workforce planning for hospital nursing. These issues are related and any efforts to objectively plan the hospital nursing workforce must seek to address them in order to succeed.
authors.affiliation: Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, 88 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. mary.chiarella@sydney.edu.au
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chiarella
authors.forename: Jessica K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Roydhouse
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*